I nodded in agreement all the way up to the section on having a hard conversation on performance. I had assumed that was a given until he explicitly called it o

I nodded in agreement all the way up to the section on having a hard conversation on performance. I had assumed that was a given until he explicitly called it out after several other things including actually firing the person. As a leader, that should have been step number one. Just because this person is nice doesn’t give you a freebie to avoid the painful-but-necessary responsibility to have this conversation. If you haven’t had that hard conversation to highlight and plan on fixing performance, and you fire someone, then you’ve taken the easy way out. If you’re a leader taking the easy way out, you’re unfit to lead.